I'd definitely saw a Japanese geisha and a Buddhist/Shinto Temple in Japan on the intro clip of TAR 20, and that temple is probably somewhere in Kyoto and they might go there. If someone send 2 pictures that I'd mentioned it, please post it here 'cause I don't have time to post it here.

#8 is One Waterfront Towers in Honolulu, HI. Can't believe no one caught this one. The pictures are taken from different angles (front and back), but if you compare the buildings in the cap (A) to the the one I found online (B) I think you'll agree with me.

If you look between the towers at the base, both pictures appear to have the same flat-topped triangular shape (obviously reversed). In (A), the brown parking structure concrete looking building on the right base of the right tower can just be seen in the lower left corner of (B). In (A) you can see a two-storied, large-windowed building on the near side of the right tower, just peeking out of the base of the left tower in (B).

There's a lot more 'matches' if you look for them, but it's obvious to me that pic (B) was taken soon after the building was put up, the parking lot hadn't even been put in or the building painted.

Doh!!! All of that work, then I remembered this... below is one of bspencer's eyewitness pics for comparison of what it looked like when the racer's were there. Da-da-da-daaah...

Thanks, choroneko. Since we already have a Shinkansen cap, perhaps it's possible for a single Osaka/Kyoto leg? Traveling by train between the two cities would take less than an hour. (assuming, of course, that the Gion Kobu stuff isn't just B-roll)

don't know if we already have this but cap 15 is a lagoon in honolulu. on the left of the lagoon is the ala moana bech park and to the right is the hawaii yacht club next to the hilton hotel

Yep, you got it, Ala Wai Yacht Harbor.

I was double checking to make sure we had all the identifiable Hawaiian caps nailed down, and I just noticed this one, which you had already figured out. If the angle was a bit different, you could see my high school, but it was the last cap I recognized.